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A New Embedded Platform for Rapid Development of Networking Applications

KOŘENEK Jan, KORČEK Pavol, KOŠAŘ Vlastimil, ŽÁDNÍK Martin and VIKTORIN Jan. A New Embedded Platform for Rapid Development of Networking Applications. In: Proceedings of the 2012 Seventh ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2012). Austin: IEEE Computer Society, 2012, pp. 81-82. ISBN 978-1-4503-1684-2. Available from: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2396573
Czech title
Vestavěná vývojová platforma pro gigabitové síťové aplikace
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
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Keywords

FPGA, Zynq, Embedded, Networking

Abstract

NetFPGA-1G has shown its potential in enabling fast traffic processing while introducing no packet loss and minimal delay. Now it is time to scale down in order to enable a massive deployment of the FPGA solutions in networking. We propose and build a low-cost and low-power platform which is be capable of hosting embedded applications with FPGA support. Such a platform might enable faster deployment of new ideas in networking and might prove useful for large-scale experiments (stacks of platforms) as its size, power consumption and cost are expected to be ten times lower of the NetFPGA-cube. It is recognized that the FPGA coupled with the host processor comprises a powerful platform for network traffic processing. The logic of such a solution is clear. Computational intensive tasks are handled by the FPGA logic whereas more complex tasks by the processor. The proposed platform aims at such a design in which the FPGA and the processor are even more tightly coupled together on a single die SoC solution.
As a proof of this concept, we build a platform called uG4-150. Its FPGA hosts a synthesized softcore processor (e.g. Xilinx MicroBlaze). But our final goal is to utilize the hardcore processor (e.g. ARM-based) integrated with the FPGA such as Xilinx Zynq.

Published
2012
Pages
81-82
Proceedings
Proceedings of the 2012 Seventh ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2012)
Conference
ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems 2012, Austin, TX, US
ISBN
978-1-4503-1684-2
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Austin, US
DOI
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10116,
   author = "Jan Ko\v{r}enek and Pavol Kor\v{c}ek and Vlastimil Ko\v{s}a\v{r} and Martin \v{Z}\'{a}dn\'{i}k and Jan Viktorin",
   title = "A New Embedded Platform for Rapid Development of Networking Applications",
   pages = "81--82",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2012 Seventh ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2012)",
   year = 2012,
   location = "Austin, US",
   publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
   ISBN = "978-1-4503-1684-2",
   doi = "10.1145/2396556.2396573",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10116"
}
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